The City of Colorado Springs? Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) prioritizes and addresses neighborhood traffic issues through various traffic calming and management techniques. The chief priority of the NTMP is to address cut-through traffic in neighborhoods?motorists using neighborhood streets to bypass large busier streets.   Speeding, inappropriate truck use and accidents on neighborhood streets are often associated with cut-through traffic.  However, the NTMP typically does not address streets with speeding problems only.

The Program?s goals are to:           

          §          Reduce Cut-Through Traffic
          §          Improve Safety
          §          Enhance Quality of Life
          §          Preserve Neighborhood Integrity
          §           Reduce Travel Speeds

One of the Program?s hallmarks is its focus on developing a partnership between the City and neighborhood residents to create and implement solutions together--solutions that balance community needs and neighborhood needs effectively.

ALERT:   Due to declining revenues, funding for the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program was eliminated from the 2009 City budget.  The NTMP is only one of numerous programs and services that were cut to help balance the City budget.

Neighborhoods can still submit an NTMP application, which will be held over for consideration if the program is reinstated in the future.  Although no action will be taken on new NTMP applications due to the program's current budget situation, staff will conduct a brief review of each application it receives to see if any low-cost and appropriate improvements, such as signs or pavement markings, can be made.   Staff will not conduct public meetings prior to making any improvements identified as part of that review, but the neighborhood contact person or persons will be notified.

Hopefully the suspension of the NTMP is only temporary; however, at this time it is uncertain when the City will again be able to provide traffic calming assistance through the NTMP.  In the interim, your neighborhood can request traffic enforcement through the Colorado Springs Police Department at 444-7899, as its resources permit. You can also request a Speed Watch trailer for your street, or volunteer for the Citizen Speed Watch program, which might provide some relief.

For more information on the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, please review one or more of the following links which provides more detailed information about the Program and about traffic calming.  You may also contact City staff by calling      (719) 385-5908 or via email at NTMP@springsgov.com.